Okay, I really liked A Study in Emerald. I really enjoy more "horror" stories that aren't mind numbingly terrifying, but if you think it over, may give you the "chill down your spine syndrome". I hope there's more. I hope that Mr. Gaiman will write more Lovecraftian-horror.

welcome She of Small Combat Boots. is there any shorter way to call you?

anyhow, i was saying, welcome aboard! come join a bunch of weird people in World's End, that's where you'll find most of the posters are!

We're friendly, weirdos but friendly

"If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books." Roald Dahl"I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist - books to me are the coolest and sexiest and most wonderful things there are." Neil Gaiman"Even so, there is no excuse for putting pineapple on pizza." Terry Pratchett

Have you fed your adorable, lovable and huggable lost girl lately?"Continued exposure to the Lost Girl's avatar causes people to forget how to count and to repeat things." Joe_3Heads

I think it might be the format. I just reread it after reading the original days ago and nothing seemed to be missing.

__________AJGraeme"Why are there ghosts in the kitchen punching each other in the balls?" - Aidan, "Being Human""Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried."- G.K. Chesterton

The emerald green frame arrived for the poster of A Study in Emerald yesterday. After much fumbling and cursing myself for only allowing an eighth of an inch overlap by the matting I got it assembled and hanging on the wall across from the WC. It looks so cool and now there will always be some reading material for whoever needs it.

What a great idea for a short story.

---------She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot. ~ Mark Twain

Eternity lies ahead of us, and behind. Have you eaten enough ice cream?

Hey Parrot, would love to see a picture of your framed poster! Sounds really cool. I was trying to come up with a good color for this, and when I read your post I thought, "well, duh!". Love to see it.

I currently have a copy of Fragile Things with me, and it sounds like my cup of tea. As an interesting tidbit, the guy who makes the Calls for Cthulhu episode was praising it, and said something to the extent that Neil Gaiman was a great author. http://www.callsforcthulhu.com/Unearthly terrors from the tales of H.P. meet Sherlock Holmes. Should be interesting. I'll give my two cents when I'm finished.

I've read it now, and I liked it, but I sensed that I was missing something, so I checked the plot summary on wikipedia to see if there was some intellectual or subtle point that I had missed. Nothing like that. As it turns out, I was just stupid enough to decide not to have read any Sherlock Holmes stories before going into this. *sigh*That's a perfect example of the potential problem with pastiches: you have to know what it's talking about to get it. And now I've ruined any surprise I might get out of it on a reread (assuming I've read some Holmes stories at that point).

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Great story. One thing did confuse me, and it might just be because I haven't read all of the Holmes stories.

Why does Holmes decide to kill the Elder Gods? From what I've read of him, Holmes, while being of a rational mindpoint, also says that if there is no evidence to prove otherwise, then the impossible is actually possible, or something to that effect. So if there is no evidence to say otherwise that the Elders are not what they say they are, why doesn't Holmes believe it?

I just read this, didn't see the twist coming but in retrospect there are enough clues: "Sherry Vernet" is a giveaway, as Holmes claimed to be related to the French Vernet family and ACD had originally planned to call him "Sherringford".